We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.

I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.

The factory farm has succeeded by divorcing people from their food, eliminating farmers, and ruling agriculture by corporate fiat.

The secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.

People who want to find a place of rest, want to find an integrated personality, sense of self, want fewer fractures in their lives.

People shouldn't be allowed to get married until it's too late to have kids.

Of course food has an important cultural use in families, but there are things that have more important cultural uses in families, and broadening the conversation out simply from what's reasonable also allows in other things.